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Professor receives grant from NFL to study bacteria on fields
U. Toledo's environmental science department has big plans for research involving turf grass, which can be a breeding ground for many different types of harmful bacteria. Last month, the NFL Charities awarded U. Toledo a $100,000 grant to further an investigation of turf-dwelling harmful bacteria.
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Study finds being dumped impacts future relationships
Singles, take note. A recent U. Michigan study shows that a person’s attractiveness to the opposite sex may depend on how his or her last relationship ended.
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Study shows Neanderthal diet not so different from humans
A new study by a team of George Washington U. researchers found that Neanderthal diets incorporated cooked and raw vegetables and did not rely exclusively on meat-based food sources for sustenance, refuting theories that Neanderthals' demise resulted from a primitive, meat-dependent lifestyle. Dr.
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Harvard researchers monitor violence in Sudan
A team of researchers from Harvard U. is collaborating with Google and a humanitarian group led by George Clooney to implement a monitoring system that will watch for violence in southern Sudan.
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Recent study claims caffeine may relieve asthma symptoms
Some people can’t go without their morning cup of coffee, and for some people with asthma, coffee may help them wake up and breathe better, too.
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Study looks at biracial assignment
People have the tendency to classify those of biracial descent as members of their minority parent group rather than as equal members of both races, according to a recent study published by Harvard psychologists. The study, led by Harvard psychology graduate student Arnold K.
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Deadly Haitian cholera strain originated in South Asia
A cholera strain that has killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti since October is South Asian in origin, according to a study conducted by several Harvard affiliates, who matched bacteria samples from Haiti with ones from Bangladesh.
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Wealth, weight linked in women in poor countries
Wealthy women in developing countries are more likely to be overweight than their socioeconomically disadvantaged counterparts, according to a recent study by the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Scientists discover ten times more stars than previous estimate
300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000—that is the latest estimate of the number of stars in the universe, a number three times larger than scientists’ previous approximations, according to a new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.